Jeff Storey

May 21, 2018 | New York Law Journal

But the structure has been controversial in Orange County since it opened to the public in 1970. The roofs leaked, and visitors had trouble navigating the gloomy interior.

By Jeff Storey

6 minute read

December 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Justice Karen Peters, who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, and will end a 34-year judicial career at the end of this month, never has had trouble asserting herself.

By Jeff Storey

21 minute read

November 20, 2017 | New York Law Journal

It is no secret that lawyers sometimes make mistakes. But with everyone communicating by email and digital information measured in terabytes, the stakes of error grow ever larger.

By Jeff Storey

8 minute read

November 13, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Attorneys interested in the “nuts and bolts” of starting a law firm listened as Matthew Foreman, a solo attorney, described the equipment they'd need.

By Jeff Storey

10 minute read

October 30, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A convention would be the first in 50 years; voters turned down all the suggestions of the 1967 convention, which were grouped in a single ballot proposition. In 1997, a convention call was voted down in a statewide referendum.

By Jeff Storey

9 minute read

August 31, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Aviva Abramovsky regards her new position as dean of the state University at Buffalo School of Law as "a kind of homecoming," though she didn't attend the school and is the first dean named from outside in 30 years.

By Jeff Storey

13 minute read

July 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Casting a wary eye on the competition for big-money business cases posed by the United Kingdom, an advisory panel to New York's Commercial Division has developed a proposal it says would drive home that "the London Commercial Court is not entitled to a monopoly on large lawsuits."

By Jeff Storey

14 minute read

July 03, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Members of a new commission tasked with addressing LGBTQ issues in state courts have underlined their mission by naming the panel after a Manhattan judge who was a forceful advocate of the gay and lesbian community at a dark time in its history.

By Jeff Storey

12 minute read

June 20, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A veteran judge who has championed access to justice for the poor will continue her crusade at a Long Island law school after she retires from two high-level state court positions next week.

By Jeff Storey

14 minute read

June 02, 2017 | New York Law Journal

When Sharon Stern Gerstman, the NYSBA's new president, appeared before the organization's nominating committee, she quoted the Jewish sage Hillel to describe the approach she would take as president: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I?" For Gerstman, that ancient teaching resonates in the aftermath of the 2016 election, when more and more lawyers are stepping forward to protect the rights of immigrants, minorities, the press, LGBTQ people, veterans and others.

By Jeff Storey

10 minute read